REPORT: Sisters used 2-year-old in Freehold Mall robbery

A pair of sisters from Brick Township were charged following an incident where they used a 2-year-old's stroller to conceal shoplifted goods at the Freehold Raceway Mall.NJ.com / File Photo

FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Two Brick sisters were arrested after allegedly hiding shoplifted goods under a 2-year-old child’s stroller and crashing a car into two other vehicles during their escape at the Freehold Raceway Mall, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press.

Shamecca N. Whitfield, 23, and Shamera S. Whitfield, 20, both of Brick, were charged with shoplifting, attempted aggravated assault with a motor vehicle, criminal mischief, using a child during the commission of a crime and endangering the welfare of a child after they were taken into custody in Eatontown Friday on unrelated charges, the report said.

Freehold Township police Sgt. Raymond Piccolini told the paper that when mall security officers tried to stop the sisters, they ran into the parking lot and “tossed the six or seven bags and the 2-year-old into the back of the car.”

During the getaway, their car rammed a mall security vehicle twice, then drove away, Piccolini said.

Eatontown police contacted Freehold Township Friday night, Piccolini said, and the sisters were taken to the Monmouth County Correctional Institution, Freehold Township, with bail set at $180,100 for each woman.